Okay, there is a lot going on tonight. We're going to talk about all of it. The U.S. struck

Iranian military targets, Iran fired at U.S. warships. But somehow, despite all of that,

according to Donald Trump, the ceasefire is still in effect. Oh, and FBI director Kash Patel,

we've been talking about him a lot, but he's ordering polygraph tests of dozens of FBI personnel, which is not at all a sign, I would note, of unhinged paranoia from the person in charge of keeping this country safe during that particular war I just mentioned. But I've got to start with something else. And I've got to start with some huge new reporting from the Wall Street Journal that has just come out in the last day.

And guys, this is exclusive reporting from inside of the Trump administration tonight.

The journal is reporting that, quote, privately, President Trump's advisors are increasingly worried that Republicans will pay a political price for the rising fuel costs.

And that's according to people familiar with the matter.

That's right.

Just, we're 68 days now, 68 days into this disastrous war with Iran.

And the Trump White House is waking up to the reality that rising gas prices might hurt their party at the polls.

What a scoop there, that one. And boy, they're just realizing it now. And I wonder how the

political geniuses who are waking up to this now inside the White House figured that one out.

Maybe it was the recent NPR Maris poll showing 63% of voters blamed Trump for rising gas prices.

Or the recent Reuters-Ipsos polls showing 77% of registered voters think Trump bears responsibility for the high cost of gas.

Or one of the bigillions of other polls, all showing Americans are fed up with Trump's war and the rising cost of gas.

So now that the Trump administration finally realizes just how bad these rising gas prices are for them,

how are they going to try to sell this to the American people? Because that's the key part.

Well, so far, we've seen a variety of approaches.

There's the complete denial approach, like what we saw from Trump's Energy Secretary today.

And what about people's concern about gas prices?

They're seeing numbers that give them some heartburn and some heartache,

and it's hard for a lot of people to figure out how they're going to stomach this for much longer. It is. And of course, it's been tough for our administration as well.

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